My daughter Sarah has declined to sit through the traditionally interminable stadium gathering in Athens known as the University of Georgia graduation ceremony. Instead, we'll play hooky, eat barbecue, and let UGA mail her two(!) degrees to the house the following week.

This is a particularly good plan for me upon the news that UGA has booked Supreme Court Justice "Long Dong" Clarence Thomas to speak at graduation. That would be even worse than when I yawned through the glories of chicken eating back when the founder of Chic-fil-a spoke at my sister's ceremony.

NTD